VIDEO: NYK claims a world first in autonomous ship operation

Japan’s NYK Line has conducted what it says is the world’s first Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) trial to be performed in accordance with the IMO’s interim guidelines such trials. NYK’s goal

NYK lays keel for world’s largest LNG fueled PCTC

Japan’s NYK Line held a keel laying ceremony September 20 at Shin Kurushima Toyohashi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. to mark the start of construction of what will be the world’s largest pure car

NYK gets green loan to finance methanol-fueled newbuild

DECEMBER 27, 2018 — Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) is to receive 2 billion yen (about $18 million) from Taiyo Life Insurance Company as a green loan to finance the building

NYK containership gets next generation bridge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 — Japan’s NYK Line says that it has completed a new concept for a ship’s bridge and has employed it on a large containership currently being managed by the

Car carrier cartel members hit with hefty European Commission fines

FEBRUARY 21, 2018 — The European Commission has imposed fines totaling EUR 395 million (about $487 million) on five car carrier companies involved in a cartel that ran from October 2006 to

Japan’s big three eye LNG fueled car carriers on key route

AUGUST 28, 2017 — A working group that will include Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) is to conduct a feasibility study on

UECC takes delivery of first LNG-fueled PCTC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 – European short sea operator United European Car Carriers (UECC), has taken delivery of the world’s first LNG-fueled Pure Car and Truck Carrier from Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.’s NACKS

Third prison term handed down in antitrust case

MARCH 10, 2014 — A third shipping company executive is being rolled off to a federal prison as the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into bid rigging and price fixing in the car